Run NodeJS as a Service on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

readme.md

Run NodeJS as a Service on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

With Node you can write very fast JavaScript programs serverside. It's pretty easy to install Node, code your program, and run it. But > how do you make it run nicely in the background like a true server?

• Go to /etc/init/
• $ sudo vim yourapp.conf
• Paste script.conf
• $ sudo start yourapp
• And when you wanna kill the process $ sudo stop yourapp

Reference

Thanks to [kvz.io] (http://kvz.io/blog/2009/12/15/run-nodejs-as-a-service-on-ubuntu-karmic/) for this!

script.conf

description "node.js server"
author      "Foo Bar"

# used to be: start on startup
# until we found some mounts weren't ready yet while booting

start on started mountall
stop on shutdown

# automatically respawn

respawn
respawn limit 99 5

script
    
    export HOME="/root"
    exec /usr//bin/nodejs /path/to/yourapp.js >> /var/log/node.log 2>&1

end script

post-start script
   
   # optionally put a script here that will notifiy you node has (re)started
   # /root/bin/hoptoad.sh "node.js has started!"
   
end script

I did it by pm2 this way(Ubuntu 16.04.01 LTS):
npm install -g pm2
pm2 start yourapp.js
pm2 startup
pm2 save